Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-09
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The Chicago, Milwaukee Il 1T. Paul
Hallway CompanS's Machine and Can
Building shops go up in Smoke.
Fierce Flames AID Large LOSSES,
at 1890 last night, o telephones es-
sage wRs received at the Merchants hotel
Office sounding an alarm OF fire, which
fire was located at the Chicago. Milwau-
kee & st. Paul shops about q mile east
of this city. The ringing of the bell
brought hundreds of people from their
houses, and nearly every one OF them
after locating the fire started on the run
for the scene thereof. The fire was first
seen issuing from the peak of the car
repairing building, and In an incredibly
short space OF time, the whole roof was
q mass of cracking roaring flames, and
the crowd which had assembled was
powerless to do anything except to save
the adjoining buildings. Two theories
are advanced as the probable of
the fire. one OF which ID spontaneous
combustion, as in the building at the
time there were several large piles of oil
saturated rags and waste; and the
other is that q spark from the
smoke stack of the stationary engine fell
on the tar covered roof and set fire to the
building. The night Waterman took
he fire out Of the stationary engine at
about 10 O'Clock, and 1t 10 presumed
that sparks went up the chimney and as
the wind blew directly from the south
west, the sparks were blown to the roof
and famed by the breezes into 9 fame.
No idea of incendiarism is advanced, as
the FIRE was first seen near the center OF
the building. The first person 10 enter
the building found q partition which
divided the car and boiler making de-
partment ell ablaze and the fire spread
so rapidly that no one could make
but one trip to the interior. Within the
building at the time was all the mschin-
cry and tools used in repairing and con-
structing boilers and engines. two
locomotives, numbers 30 and $50, to-
gether with q large amount of supplies,
storekeeper's records end many tool
chests belonging to the employees.
Nothing was saved except the store
keepers reoords, and all else WAS totally
destroyed. The loss will not be CON-
plete as the greater portion Of the ma
terial burned was fully covered by
insurance, Beside the large
building small oil house
was burned and another torn down to
prevent the flames from spreading to the
round house. The value of the property
destroye ed will probably reach 1925 900.
The city hook and ladder company
took its truck and went to the fire where
its members worked like s%roisns until
the flames were under control. The'oom.
pany wss unable to do ought toward saw
ing the burning buildings so all hands
were set at work pulling down some small
buildings and preventing the flames
from getting to the round house whiot
job was anything but easy as the vino
blew directly from the southeast. How
eyer q large amount Of water applied
with care prevented the building from
taking fire and it remains to day where
it stood yesterday and in good oond:.
. ton. Within the round house Their,
were two locomotives both Of which
. were pulled out by hand and sakel
/. down the track out OF the way of danger
The fire was one of the hottest which
ever occurred in Ysnkton and had j
: broksn out I'M thiokly populated por
ton Of the city there would have beel
\ vast destruction.
n A young man named Henry Henzel
mar employee in the Freie Presse Office
v got too near the hook when the crow
was pulling on q rope In an attempt tc
pull away a small building and the hoo
breaking loose, struck his right side an
n hand, and he was escorted from th
scene in . badly bruised condition
q Another worker was pulled from unde
a moving car Just in time to save bot
his arms from being run over.
al What the railroad company will d
about building new shops Is q matter {
ia conjecture, but it is generally presume
ia that this will settle the question Of shop
d at Yankton in one way or the othel
Superintendent Beardsley arrived froi
10 Sioux Oity this noon.